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I would love to have them light up like a scoreboard as each representative takes the floor, showing all of the commandments they have broken. If people want so badly to bring religion into politics then lets just show them exactly who they've been voting for. Maybe we can get the news networks in on this too, displaying it on the side of the screen similar to a sporting event.

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[โ€“] cmbabul@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This probably wouldnโ€™t go as well as you might hope, this just gives them the opportunity to say something like โ€œI know Iโ€™m not perfect which is why Iโ€™m thankful for the grace of my savior Jesus Christโ€.

Its actually a feature of Christianity that you can sin as much as you want after you do the magic prayer, they are technically supposed to try not to, but the inevitable failure is due to manโ€™s fallibility

[โ€“] callouscomic@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

As my dad said, he'll answer to god when he's dead. So that means he doesn't answer to me or anyone else he's been a complete p.o.s. to. Convenient.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that just trigger the "thou shalt not lie" commandment? We're not their god, we can punish them with immediate judgement.

[โ€“] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

See, you're looking at it logically.

What you need is a frontal lobe lobotomy so you can happily ignore whatever you please, just like they do.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

What was I thinking? Oh that's the problem, I was thinking...

[โ€“] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Theoretically but Iโ€™ve never seen a Christian in a position of power called on that

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Obviously it's time we started!

[โ€“] cmbabul@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I agree, Iโ€™m just stating that if it doesnโ€™t come from their own, which it never will because they insulate each other from consequences, it wonโ€™t have much of an effect

[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)

For congresspeople they're more like "The ten vague suggestions"

[โ€“] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago

Ten rules that poor people must follow

[โ€“] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] Philote@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

The tentative agreements

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Scoreboards have buzzers, lets make it obvious every time they 'score' a new sin!

[โ€“] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Itโ€™s like Canada and the Geneva Suggestions

And yes I stole that from HLC from YouTube

[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

In the circles I follow, itโ€™s called The Ten Demandments

[โ€“] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 months ago

Can we have the beatitudes instead ? You know the supposed words of Christ.

[โ€“] barrbaric@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't work. Just think about all the religious Trump supporters who think he's a "good christian man" in spite of his many obvious unchristian qualities. Their religion is downstream from their bigoted political views, and they don't care one bit about being called out as hypocrites.

On top of that, the media those types would consume would only ever use it to show dems in a negative light. You have to dismantle that entire media apparatus first, which means mass arrests, targeted assassinations, political purges, and, the biggest issue for the dems, not respecting the private property of fascist billionaires.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So you mean all of the things that are legal for Biden to now do thanks to SCOTUS? ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

He'd be allowed to do them, but his views are much closer to those of the republicans (opposing abortion, pro-racism, genocidally zionist, etc) than to a typical voter so he'd never want to. And that was before his brain started leaking out his ears.

[โ€“] ElGosso@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

The ten crack commandments

[โ€“] 667@lemmy.radio 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Restream a public feed with said scoreboard, commentary, and live twitch comments.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

I was kinda thinking the same thing... Since we can't trust the various networks to be equally honest about both parties, maybe we could do something on lemmy similar to how reddit does livestream news feeds, except we put the scoreboard on the side and let participants vote on new additions for each delegate.

[โ€“] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or, in Eastern countries, the five precepts.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

Since our politics cannot hold one religion above another, I say we have a scoreboard for every religion with a final board listing how good or evil each politician rates overall.

[โ€“] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah that's what made me think of this... before you go indoctrinating children against their will (and the will of the parents), maybe you should become better role-models first.

[โ€“] tdgoodman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cliff Stearns (R-FL) proposed a display of the Ten Commandments in the capital building (without the scoreboard lights) in 2005. The bill did not pass.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

I'm not in the least bit surprised, most of these bastards aren't willing to live by the same rules they impose on everyone else.